Quotes About Attention

Nobody would notice you, except to feel sorry for the little kid. But I made sure they all noticed you today. They'll be watching every move you make. All you have to do to earn their respect now is be perfect.

I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them;once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes

The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.

If one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

It's most dangerous nowadays for a husband to pay any attention to his wife in public. It always makes people think that he beats her when they are alone. The world has grown so suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life.

Watson-dijo-, si en alguna ocasión le parece que peco en exceso de confianza en mis facultades o que le presto menos atención de la que merece un caso, le ruego que me susurre al oído la palabra <>. Le quedaré infinitamente agradecido.

When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.

The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.

The superior man bends his attention to what is radical. That being established, all practical courses naturally grow up.

Conscience is like a pet: If you spoil it by too much attention it'll start yipping at the most inopportune times.

not come to feel his own goodness, worth and lovableness because those significant persons in his life were not present to him with the full attention of their whole being.

In any generation, even the most revolutionary, the arrangements which are enjoyed always far exceed those which are recognized to stand in need of attention, and those which are being prepared for enjoyment are few in comparison with those which receive amendment: the new is an insignificant proportion of the whole.

People don't pay attention. And then one day there's an accounting. And after that, nothing is the same.

He looked like he was studying something small in the grass.

It is always one's stance upon uncertain ground that invites the attentions of one's enemies. Or discourages it.

He sat leaning forward in the seat with his elbows on the empty seatback in front of him and his chin on his forearms and he watched the play with great intensity. He'd notion that there would be something in the story itself to tell him about the way the world was or was becoming but there was not. There was nothing in it at all.

He watched her until she was lost among the tourists. Men and women alike turning to look after her. He thought that God's goodness appeared in strange places. Don't close your eyes.

It's like a lot of things, said the smith. Do the least part of it wrong and ye'd just as well to do it all wrong.

They listened with great attention as John Grady answered their questions and they nodded solemnly and they were careful of their demeanor that they not be thought to have opinions on what they heard for like most men skilled at their work they were scornful of any least suggestion of knowing anything not learned at first hand.

Oh, ever once in a while I'll catch myself slippin into manual override. But I catch myself. I catch myself.

To be humble is to be so sure of one's self and one's mission that one can forego calling excessive attention to one's self and status. And, even more pointedly, to be humble is to revel in the accomplishments or potentials of others -- especially those with whom one identifies and to whom one is linked organically.